Simon Le Bon: ‘I was shocked and completely frozen’

The singer has been accused in the US of grabbing a woman’s private parts while signing autographs. It is claimed the pop heart-throb, 59, assaulted Shereen Hariri at the record shop where she worked in Los Angeles.

Writing her “#MeToo” statement on Facebook, in a nod to the ongoing campaign of sex abuse in Hollywood, she said the star was posing for photos when he grabbed her “butt cheek” and started “making his way down to my genitals”.

“I was shocked and completely frozen,” she wrote. She said she was “afraid of the consequences” of confronting the hitmaker after the alleged incident at The Wherehouse store in 1995.

“If I made a scene, I’d be in the press: The ‘Girl Who Accused Simon Le Bon’. I’d probably be fired, rejected, ignored, even hated,” she wrote.

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Ms Hariri said she changed her mind after the release of Donald Trump’s notorious “grab them by the p***y” tape in October 2016.

“I decided that time’s up. I’m not holding this secret anymore,” she wrote. “I want everyone to know what this man did to me. I hope he comes clean publicly.

“I hope he make amends to his wife and daughters.” Ms Hariri, now 47, works as a sex therapist in Los Angeles and said she is not seeking compensation, just an apology.

She claims the ’80s icon pulled out of meeting with her to talk about the accusation, forcing her to go public.